As reported last week, Hangouts, Photos, and Google+ are going to be considered as three independent product lines at Google, according to Sundar Pichai, product czar (see Sundar Pichai on the direction… Read more »

Microsoft has unveiled a couple new handsets, the Lumia 640 and 640 XL, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The phones themselves are pretty low-priced for their decent specifications, but what’s… Read more »

Microsoft says its compliance with a data privacy standard set by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) means customer data in its Azure cloud will be safer from prying eyes. The ISO/IEC 27018 standard aims to establish… Read more »

Dina Bass at Bloomberg Business has been tipped by people familiar with Microsoft’s plans that Satya Nadella is planning to continue his acquisitions of mobile productivity applications for iOS and Android. Nadella… Read more »

The holiday season news drought in data and analytics is definitely over. A bunch of announcements from commercial vendors, and others from the open source world, have hit in the last week, and… Read more »

Microsoft is claiming strong cloud-and-mobile growth in its second-quarter earnings release. The company which is playing catchup in cloud now claims a $5.5 billion run rate there, up from the $4.4 billion… Read more »

Microsoft is trying to clarify what they mean when they say they’re a ‘productivity and platform’ company. Clearly, Microsoft has larger ambitions than so-called productivity apps: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and so… Read more »